PGT Boosts ARIA Points and Adds Five Last Chance Dream Seats
Five $5,300 ARIA events will award an enhanced points rate before six January Last Chance tournaments decide another path into the $500,000 freeroll.
- The five-event PGT ARIA High Roller Series runs Nov. 28 through Dec. 2 and awards 0.002 points per prize-money dollar.
- Twenty selected WSOP Paradise and WPT World Championship events award half of standard PGT points.
- PGT Last Chance runs Jan. 4-9, 2027, with six $10,500 no-limit hold’em tournaments.
- Its five best non-qualified series leaderboard finishers earn Dream Seats for the PGT Championship.
- The $500,000 Championship freeroll takes place Jan. 11-12, 2027, in Las Vegas.
PokerGO has set out the final four stops in the race for its 2026 PGT Championship, adding a five-event ARIA High Roller Series with an above-standard points rate and five Dream Seats at January’s Last Chance festival.
The PGT ARIA High Roller Series runs Nov. 28 through Dec. 2 at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. It comprises five single-day, $5,300 no-limit hold’em tournaments, with one event scheduled each day.
Cashers in those events receive 0.002 PGT points for every dollar of prize money, rather than the usual 0.0015-point rate for tournaments at that buy-in. The increased rate gives players a late opportunity to improve their standing before the season-ending championship qualification is settled.
PGT points are also available through 20 designated events at WSOP Paradise and the WPT World Championship. Each qualifying event in those two partner series awards 50% of the standard PGT points.
The final dedicated stop, PGT Last Chance, runs Jan. 4-9, 2027, at PokerGO Studio. Its schedule has six single-day $10,500 no-limit hold’em tournaments, ending with a Saturday, Jan. 9 finale.
The five highest finishers on the Last Chance series leaderboard who have not already qualified for the PGT Championship will receive Dream Seats. A player can earn one of those seats even without having played a PGT event during the season.
The Dream Seat route sits alongside leaderboard qualification for the $500,000 Championship freeroll. PokerNews previously reported that the top 40 season-long leaderboard players can enter, provided they have cashed in at least four PGT events, including at least one operated and owned by PGT, and opt in before Last Chance begins. Championship starting stacks are based on leaderboard position.
The freeroll pays five places. The winner receives $250,000, split between $100,000 in cash and $150,000 in PGT Passport credit, while the minimum $25,000 payout includes $10,000 in cash and $15,000 in Passport credit.
The PGT Championship is scheduled for Jan. 11-12, 2027, at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.
